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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Coming Together -- 1 Global Dreams -- 2 The First Globalization -- 3 Retreat -- 4 North and South -- Part II. One World -- 5 The Container Revolution -- 6 Hot Money -- 7 Kindling -- 8 "A Giant Sucking Sound" -- Part III. Tales of Excess -- 9 Dentist Ships -- 10 Hand on the Scale -- 11 The China Price -- 12 Capturing Value -- Part IV. Global Fears -- 13 Giants Afloat -- 14 Risks Unmeasured -- 15 The Crisis in Global Finance -- 16 Backlash -- Part V. The Fourth Globalization -- 17 Red Tide -- 18 Food Miles -- 19 Broken Chains -- 20 The Next Wave -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- A NOTE ON THE TYPE

Introduction to Hild: a brilliant light in a dark age -- The Anglo-Saxon princess -- The forgotten women of early monasticism -- The Celts, Ireland, and Saint Patrick -- The Augustinian mission -- Hild embarks on the religious life -- Life in Hild's monasteries -- Hild the confessor -- A window onto ancient liturgies -- Hild the overseer -- Whitby: at the origins of English poetry -- Underlying tensions come to a head -- The Synod of Whitby -- The aftermath -- Hild departs this life -- Hild and Aelffled -- Further developments -- The untold story.